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Partly sunny skies with a high of 20 C and a low of 6.
What’s happening today
Unfortunately, what’s not happening today is Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band concert at Canada Life Centre. Starr has contracted COVID-19 and has cancelled five Canadian shows, including the one in Winnipeg, as well as performances in Michigan and Minnesota. The rest of his tour remains on hold.
Ringo Starr has tested positive for COVID-19. (Seth Wenig / The Associated Press files)
Today’s must-read
Sathya Kovac died Monday, but the life-threatening disease she fought for more than 15 years didn’t kill her. The 44-year-old Winnipeg woman took her last breath at 10 a.m. — by choice, via the Medical Assistance in Dying program — because of her ongoing problems accessing adequate provincial home care. Kevin Rollason has the story.
Sathya Kovac (Supplied)
On the bright side
Mike McGarry and Carlee Farmer both fell in love with Winnipeg’s canopy of urban trees. But they were dismayed that the wood from diseased and dead trees was heading to the landfill. Since Dutch elm disease only affects the bark, not the wood, their company diverts some of the urban trees’ wood and turns it into usable lumber. David Sanderson and Mike Deal have the story.
Carlee Farmer (right) and her partner Mike McGarry, owners of Urban Lumber. (Mike Deal / Winnipeg Free Press)
On this date
On Oct. 4, 1940: The Winnipeg Free Press reported King George narrowly escaped a German whistle bomb as Nazi planes carried out raids of British targets, including London. According to the London Star, the recent Hitler-Mussolini summit in Brenner might consider the Nazi air forces’ failure in the Battle of Britain reason to consolidate support from Japan, the U.S.S.R. and Spain to force Britain to negotiate a peace treaty. But British leaders suspected the Axis powers would turn to an eastern Mediterranean blitzkrieg. Search our archives for more here.
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